1619 Quotes

#1. Most African Americans, if given a chance, would have chosen to be 'just Americans' ever since the first of us was brought here to Jamestown colony in 1619, a year before the Mayflower landed. But that choice has never been left up to us.

Clarence Page

#2. The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race.

Medgar Evers

#3. I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#4. In the 1960s, the Stanford historian Peter Laslett did a careful study of British marriage records and found that at no time in the recorded past did people regularly marry at very early ages. Between 1619 and 1660, for instance, 85 percent of women were nineteen

Bill Bryson

#5. Johannes Kepler published his book Harmonices Mundi in 1619. In it he proposed that it was the Creator who "decorated" the whole world, using mathematical and musical harmonic proportions. The spiritual and the physical are united.

David Byrne

#6. I'm not saving you, I remind her. But something makes me wonder if she even wants me to.

Alexandra Bracken

#7. I think the works of W.D. Gann and Robert Prechter have inspired me more than anyone else. It was from their writings that I discovered cycles, patterns, and psychology dominate the market, and that the news breaks with the cycles, not the other way around.

Jeff Cooper

#8. In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems.

Henri Cole

#9. I pay other people a generous salary so i can be with you.

Sylvia Day

#10. Henceforth the majesty of God revere;Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.

Jean Racine

#11. I used to like to dig myself a hole just to see how long it took to get out of it.

Buddy Hackett

#12. This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Amelia Barr

#13. I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

Mason Cooley

#14. Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry.

Michael McCaul

#15. The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest level of analytics and information to solve problems for our clients.

Mike McGavick

#16. It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

David Hockney

#17. I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.

Joshua Harris